skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the late reply.

RDP/termsrv by design create a new session for incoming connections. However, with Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), Windows Containers and Windows AppGuard, we definitely have a way of launching remote applications in an existing session.

Have you perhaps looked at WVD or RemoteApp? If you'd like to talk more professionally, you can email me at {first_name}.{last_name}@microsoft.com (my name is available on github.com/zeusk).
> “The response was: if and when people start abusing Signal or doing things that we think are terrible, we'll say something,” said Bernstein, who was in the meeting, conducted over video chat. “But until something is a reality, Moxie's position is he's not going to deal with it.”

> Bernstein (disclosure: a former colleague of mine at Vox Media), added, “You could see a lot of jaws dropping. That’s not a strategy — that’s just hoping things don’t go bad.”

So what's the alternative, exactly, when you are supposed to keep things encrypted between users? Either you are a conduit or a publisher, you have to choose.
Ok, so then so was Malheur and the siege of the Seattle police station.
Giraffes also reach up to eat.

(They do look quite funny when bending down to drink, though!)
Absolute domination. Even the jitless run is ahead in all but 2 benchmarks.
fantastic show. For people who like the 80s/90s tech setting as well as just a plain good drama.
Hasn't the internet and communication tools like signal been used for many years now to coordinate far worse attacks? Not to mention the various crimes it will inevitably be used for. Surely the people involved are aware it will inevitably be used for child pornography, sex trafficking, arms trade, and a litany of other crimes.

It's just the nature of true encryption. You take both the good and the bad, we've known this for a while now.
Same, I have been using Linode for almost 10 years for small projects.
While I absolutely agree, it was disappointing that states didn’t go out of their way to prove Biden won, because now we have nearly 1/2 the country that isn’t quite sure.

I get what the laws are and mostly why they are. I just think elections should be a system without question, regardless how ridiculous the claim is. It should be trivial to without question and verifiably prove them wrong.
That's right. Once you have a replicating strand that's modular (linearly able to glue end-to-end) it can also recombine randomly with other completely different replicators to see if the "offspring" can replicate. We know for a fact major sections of DNA are shared among lots of different organisms, so we know this did happen a lot during evolution.
"That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did...

You deserved it."
I agree with you.

All I see here is evidence of a sensible team pondering about the future of their product in light of recent events, both the potential for their platform to be abused, and let’s face it, the potential for their platform to disappear off the face of the internet if it becomes the platform of choice for an unsavoury audience. Neither of which they have much control over.

I would be more worried if people at Signal were not thinking about this, debating the issues and reflecting on the direction of their product.

I thought the article (despite the over-egged headline) was interesting and not particularly hysterical.

What I don’t see here is anyone actually suggesting they compromise E2E or any of the fundamentals of the product that we like in Signal.

I feel strongly that Signal needs to stay moving in the direction it’s heading - which is to be a no-bullshit, secure, E2E encrypted, reliable and open platform with none of the data-hoarding of its rivals.

I do not see any harm in Signal self-reflecting in particular in light of recent events.

A “head in the sand” approach seems worse. I’m surprised by the cynical comments here so far. How about we take a charitable read of this?
When I said "you absolutely would not make it explode" I meant a nuclear explosion; I thought that was clear but perhaps not. I said you might be able to extract the radioactive materials by using brute force. You might also be able to extract the high explosives, but so what? There are far easier ways to obtain high explosive materials. The fact that you could conceivably extract the radioactive materials is why the weapons are very well guarded. The point is that if you somehow stole a weapon, you wouldn't be able to use it as designed.

The engineering process for these things is highly adversarial. Layers and layers of red teams trying to break them in the conceptual phase, the design phase, the build phase, and the deployment phase. Plus coding extremely detailed computer models of the weapons and their usage scenarios and trying to make things fail in simulation. On the fastest supercomputers in the world.

https://www.newswise.com/articles/sandia-weapons-program-mee...

https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/10/01/hpe-strikes-deal-to-provi...
The world is full of coincidences.
> So the laser beam of outrage has reached Signal. We knew this day was coming.

Next, I seriously expect Amazon and Google at some point to turn on the microphones on all Echo and Home devices and make sure that nobody ever says anything outrageous in their private homes. Failing that, report them to the authorities, or better, doxx them with social media mobs.
Navalny on Putin's Russia: 'All autocratic regimes come to an end'
Plane or inclination changes are expensive. Phase changes are cheap, relatively speaking.
How does each cell know it exact location to decide which specific cell to become (i.e. which part of the dna to read)? Especially at the very early stage?
So, they eye works pretty much like a camera - but it's not a camera: it's a complex dynamic self-assembling, self-tuning adaptive structure.

The fact that it's geometry is roughly static around a focal length that has sharp focus on the retina is a wonder of homeostasis with at least three known tuning loops:

1) the lens
Moving on swiftly...

2) a slower feedback loop adjusting the choriod (hence focal length) in the order of hours.

3) an even slower loop adjusting the eye geometry over longer periods of time.

check out:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662730...
For anyone else who didn't believe aidenn0, this is the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. It carries 250,000 cars a day (or it did, pre-pandemic).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_Bridge
That's terrible advice.
And then it fails because you don't have "make" or a compiler installed.
Build dependencies aren't an issue as long as they are reasonably standard and easy to install.
The phone number is not even the worst part really. Signal's privacy policy says they don't collect and store sensitive info, but how is a list of everyone you've been in contact with not sensitive?

Sadly I've had very little luck getting my family to move to Signal and less luck getting them to use Jami. The bulk of my communications are unsecured SMS/MMS. It's such a basic function that I'm surprised open source solutions aren't better. Whatever they've become Signal had a pretty great interface.
Again I lament the falling respect for and understanding of free speech as a principle that helps us all. Only when communication between two willing parties is unhindered is it even possible to build a just world. The power to clamp down on voluntary communication is a power no authority should ever be trusted with, because there are no examples in the history of mankind where that power is only used for good - arguably there can be no such examples, what with power being a vector for corruption.
How can one even develop a content-policy for something like Signal? Isn't supposed to be impossible for them to ever see your messages anyway?
What gets lost sometimes is that Giuliani was a federal prosecutor. He's been exposed as a kook - many have known for a long time but if he's willing to do this for a now former president, imagine what he was willing to do when not many were paying attention and he was a prosecutor. If you got sent away for life and were prosecuted by Giuliani, you should almost get an automatic appeal.
This is the only other solution I've seen proposed in this thread that makes sense, thanks for posting
What is it that you want to do with this computer? Are you just looking to tinker?
>Don't call a bunch of selfie taking hooligans insurretionists

They had knives and zip ties and intended to take hostages. The fact that they are incompetent does not obviate their intent.
The options are good, but I don't like the IFS suggestion. Bash has a perfectly good way of dealing with spaces in array elements. Fixing the example in the article is as simple as adding double quotes around the array:

for name in "${names[@]}"; do
echo "$name"
done

The will not result in a single element, but will destructure each element of names, as if each were double-quoted, and will print the same output that the "strict mode IFS setting" does.

What's more, the double-quoted array solution will work even if the elements contain newlines or tabs.
When trying to schedule on an as needed basis, the next time slot where everyone is available together could be in several weeks. Especially if one or more participants are business types with impossible calendars. Standing meeting reserves a time slot and guarantees a topic can be discussed within N business days of becoming important. If there is nothing for the agenda that day then you cancel it and everyone gets some free time.
Navalny does have questions to answer about his nationalist views. Several years ago, he released a number of disturbing videos, including one in which he is dressed as a dentist, complaining that tooth cavities ruin healthy teeth, as clips of migrant workers are shown. In another video, he speaks out in favour of relaxing gun controls, in a monologue that appears to compare migrants to cockroaches.

I ask him if he regrets those videos now, and he’s unapologetic. He sees it as a strength that he can speak to both liberals and nationalists. But comparing migrants to cockroaches? “That was artistic license,” he says. So there’s nothing at all from those videos or that period that he regrets? “No,” he says again, firmly.

Perhaps he has a cynical belief that, with the support of the liberal elite sewn up, the anti-migrant rhetoric can potentially help him appeal to a broader audience. Certainly, most opposition politicians, even if they don’t like Navalny much, are aware that he is the best hope for swelling anti-Putin sentiment.
I like it. It's like having a small fire extinguisher in your kitchen. Hopefully you'll never need it. Most likely you wont. But if you ever do, you'll be glad it's there.

Are there any other projects out there like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link

Dunno, wikipedia says the parameters are encrypted.

Anyway it would probably be good enough to just rip all the safety/firing electronics out, and replace it with your own best effort attempt at controlling the fireset capacitors charging and firing.

What's there to vary anyway? Charge voltages, and discharge timing? Odds would be you could probably make it go boom in a more controlled manner than what happened in past accidents when the bombs exploded after hitting the ground.

The trouble would be getting past the tamper-proof barrier, because the modern bombs are probably made to self-destruct, from what I've read, so instead of a nice ready-made bomb internals waiting for a simpler arduino control circuit for a fireset, you'd be dealing with a hot mess, after trying to get in.

Just some uninformed thoughts.

I also found some images of fat man firset online: https://lanlmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/3D33BB7F-... Interesting device. :)
> including its bandwidth limiting schedule

Can you share more about this please?

The biggest (related) issue I run into running rclone from home is hitting the request speed limit on Digital Ocean Spaces. I frequently get the "Slow down!" error when backing up a bunch of small (<1mb) files.
Tucker Carlson is the Republican version of Rachel Maddow (who didn’t hear a single conspiracy theory about Trump and Russia she didn’t peddle on the air).
No, that's pretty much the issue. Voting isn't a technology problem; it's a funding and people problem like most political issues. Other countries--large, developed countries--don't take days to hand-count paper ballots, and the tallies don't need people blathering about audits and statistics for voters to have confidence in them.

The fact that it takes as long as it does in the US and there is still a fear that it's not secure or that it's suspicious--no matter how wrong that fear may be--is a problem. And it's not a "dumb normies need more education about statistics" problem. It's a problem created by forcing a "solution" that is unnecessary (paper ballots, counted by hand work fine) and unnecessarily complicated.
Insurrection is a very vague word, any kind of violent protest against authorities can be called an insurrection. Funny the summer insurrections don't get to have that label.
Disinformation experts are increasingly concerned with misuse of a private platform called Airvibe, known to be used for many extremist activities including the 9/11 attacks and the Columbine killings. “Airvibe lets domestic terrorists communicate without any moderation whatsoever, completely out of the reach of standard, widely accepted, peer-reviewed trust and safety committees” said Vox news correspondent Casey Newton.

However, new tools for combatting abuse on the Airvibe network are being researched, including implantable vocal modulators and persistent environmental smart home microphones. For parents concerned about what their kids are hearing on Airvibe, CBS News recommends substituting Airvibe time with safe platforms monitored for misinformation like Facebook or Youtube.
It's trivial to find analysis of the flaws in the Antrim report you linked.

We have also already had a public process. President Trump exercised all avenues to prove himself the winner, deprived via fraud. They went through public courts and public scrutiny. His own prior commission on voter fraud disbanded without significant findings of similar levels of fraud he alleged occured during 2016.

What public process would you propose when private investigators, the courts, and an administration eager to prove its claims of fraud did not find anything worthwhile? When the head of the department of justice and a strong Trump supporter said claims of fraud on any relevant scale were BS?

At some point the demand for a "public process" begins looking like paranoia, when every failure to find anything significant is used to bolster the claim "that just means it's really well hidden".

When you're using the lack of evidence as justification for your claim, no public process will ever satisfy you if it doesn't confirm your assumption.
You guys are talking past each other, as your workloads appear to be different. With a traditional RDBMS, size usually wouldn't be a bottleneck, as long as you can add enough disks to a single server.

Write operations per second, that's the metric I would care about. A 50TB instance with low amount of write operations can be zero maintenance, while a 500GB instance with high amount of write operations can be a real pain.
Interesting idea, except the hardest part about creating a country will be to make other countries recognize the new country as an independent entity. Which isn’t even mentioned in the article.
Often times there is a strict timeline for results and when they're processed and released to the world, I assume leak means someone just kinda went around the regular and pretty slow channels of reporting this info. Perhaps this info would be published when the trial is done in a month or however long.
When did it go from "Of course it runs NetBSD" to "Of course nobody runs NetBSD"?
Touche. But the article itself did make a lot more of her mother than of her father, you must admit that.
Every single high-speed trader's ears perked up instantly when news of this came out. They already spend huge amounts on microwave links overland between e.g. Chicago and New York, for just a few milliseconds advantage over fiber.

Starlink gives them the same opportunity across Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. You can bet that there will be orbits that exactly link London and New York, New York and Tokyo, New York and Singapore, London and Singapore, etc. Traffic not sent under extra-high tariffs will be artificially delayed enough milliseconds to match fiber.

It would not be surprising if these low-latency contracts, for traffic amounting to well under 0.1% of total capacity, provide 10% of revenue.

It would also not be surprising if future satellites have tens of TB of storage onboard to proxy streaming for the highest-demand shows of the moment, and broadcast capability to multiple ground stations simultaneously for live streams, particularly soccer matches.

Most likely, aside from financial transaction data, routing will always offload packets to ground terminals as early as possible. I strongly doubt zigzag routing will happen at all.
Did 2000 insanity have anything on 2020? IDK, tough call.

Agreed on adults that somehow are now missing or more concerned with their Twitter feeds than their responsibilities.
Can we apply this standard to all propaganda intended to delegitimize elections? E.g. claims that Voter ID laws reduce turnout. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/21/18230009/v...
Are they actually talking about censoring speech though?

I didn’t get that from the article unless I genuinely missed something.
The higher the frequency the more data you can send. This is known as the Shannon Limit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem
Maybe some of you will find this beneficial if you have slight vision issues. It’s anecdotal, I don’t have scientific backing here. It worked for me, and I think it’s harmless to try. What I’m about to describe is what I think is the Active Focus method.

I’ve always had perfect vision but my dominant eye degraded slightly over the years so I looked into how to bring it back to full. No one in family wears glasses or anything like that, although the elderly use reading glasses of course.

Practicing reading on both monitor and in front of a book with the good eye palmed and trying to shift the focus back and forth while gunning for more clarity for a longer period of time, it took me very little to get rid of the issue - I must have practiced probably 30 times of a few minutes each over the span of a few months, so maybe once every 2nd or 3rd day as I felt like it. I went from having a hard time reading the numbers and letters to very carefully observing the edges of fonts rendered by ClearType antialiasing on Windows.

At first the eye muscles got strained from me forcing it to focus, but then it got better. Minor soreness and redness at first is nothing to be concerned about IMHO. I still practice but not as often, since I’ve trained the ability to focus at will which is really what active focus is about from my understanding - intentional focusing with enough speed.

I’m not a big fan of EndMyopia but the subreddit has people claiming they fixed far worse problems than I have (if slight blurryness is even worthy being called a problem).

I highly recommend Todd Becker’s presentation on Active Focus for anyone wanting a breakdown of the approach. Some people seem to have a hard time with being able to finely control where their focal plane is. It gets easier with practice is about all I can say.

The full “method” that Todd Becker and EM recommend is to try to keep distance to whatever that you’re reading so that it’s just slightly out of focus, but I haven’t had that severe of a myopia. From time to time I read sites like HN from slightly further away than usual just to provide a bit of a challenge to the focus practice, but I think long term it probably isn’t healthy to try to read HN at normal font size from across the room.
https://www.insider.com/zip-tie-guy-capitol-riot-plastic-han...
> During an all-hands meeting, an employee asked Marlinspike how the company would respond if a member of the Proud Boys or another extremist organization posted a Signal group chat link publicly in an effort to recruit members and coordinate violence.

> Oh, but boy, wait, what if people in whose politics we don't believe in use it?

Coordinating violence and recruiting people to participate in that violence isn’t a political stance.
>I am almost willing to bet $$$ that they would be fine if they had JS disabled.

The problem is that you eventually have to enable scripts when you encounter a site that refuses to work with scripts disabled. There are enough of such sites around that most people would instinctively enable scripts whenever they see a broken site, which nullifies any security benefit.
> hindered our understanding until very recently IMO

Any specific examples of how it hindered our understanding? Like maybe some grants or something? Because as a synthetic biologist, I've never seen a heavy emphasis on genetics take away from other causes of cellular dynamics - in fact, exactly the opposite, because genetic engineering has allowed tinkering of those cellular dynamics (for example, cardio tissue surface physics).

I don't know of any serious biologist that (even historically) disregarded the importance of other physical factors in favor of DNA, but I would love to know compelling counter examples.
Yeah you summed up what I was trying to say more clearly.
>There are people out there who fundamentally believe that no one should be able to think or speak free from their scrutiny.

I think this is what the Republicans would have you believe, but I think the left extremists are more about simply pursuing people who they believe as toxic to wherever they retreat.
WASD does not work in Edge + private browsing. All other buttons do.
Gabe was like, Oh, you want half life? Oh, you'll get it, don't worry.
I have a list of communists here...
I'm surprised that none of these comment threads are addressing the scenario posed in TFA:

> During an all-hands meeting, an employee asked Marlinspike how the company would respond if a member of the Proud Boys or another extremist organization posted a Signal group chat link publicly in an effort to recruit members and coordinate violence.

Like it or not, something like this will happen eventually and Signal will become aware of it, if only through the press. It only makes sense to have a policy framework to deal with these things rather than flying by the seat of your pants. Perhaps the policy will be "we won't take down group chats without a court order", or perhaps it will be something else. But to just punt until a link to some folks planning a lynch mob arrives in press@signal.org is irresponsible both to the platform and to the society.
SkiftOS
Though it's always worth testing based on use case. I use B2 for backups, which works great. But when doing some testing with a more interactive load, I really didn't like how many timeouts I got.
Well the Democrats agree, which is why they have repeatedly put bills up to secure elections better[1], Republicans have repeatedly stalled those bills, so I guess you can infer from that what you will.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/482569-senate-gop-blocks-...
I think a repairability label is less likely to get bucketed into yes or no. A score might be manipulated or skewed.

That said, something like a nutrition or privacy label might be a better fit. For example, if something has a battery, can it be replaced by the user or even replaced at all.
No. Oxygen screws a lot of things up. Also, RNAses are now everywhere (organisms secrete them all the time, which is why RNAse away is a product), and since the original replicating molecules were likely RNA, pretty much the entire world is toxic now.